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After Fico shooting, Poland’s Tusk receives death threats

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:20
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria demanding €400 million from Russia's Gazprom for suspended gas supplies, Swedish Social Democrats wanting ID verification on social media on EU level to fight trolls, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Slovak PM Fico in serious but stable condition, President-elect says

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:20
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country's president-elect said on Thursday (16 May), a day after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe.
Categories: European Union

Raphaël Glucksmann: Mann der Ukraine und EU-Spitzenkandidat der Sozialisten

Euractiv.de - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:19
Mit 14 Prozent in den Umfragen macht Raphaël Glucksmann, der Spitzenkandidat der französischen Sozialistischen Partei (PS), die Unterstützung der Ukraine zur Priorität seiner Kampagne. Bei anderen internationalen Krisen, wie dem Krieg in Gaza, bleibt er dagegen differenzierter.
Categories: Europäische Union

G7 to back EU line on frozen Russian assets, Italy says

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:05
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven major democracies meeting in Italy next week will back a EU plan to use the income from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort, an Italian Treasury official said on Thursday (16 May).
Categories: European Union

Key unfinished files EU Parliament inherits in the next term

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:02
Over the past five years, Ursula von der Leyen’s College of Commissioners has presented a long list of legislative texts covering issues ranging from Green Deal legislation to defence industrial programmes. 
Categories: European Union

Council of Europe: Kosovo’s last-minute bid to appease Germany falls flat in Belgrade, Pristina

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 07:00
Kosovo’s last-minute bid to placate Germany and get its application for membership of the Strasbourg-based human rights body, the Council of Europe approved has been attacked by Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and criticised by Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani.
Categories: European Union

Bulgaria demands €400 million from Gazprom for suspended gas supplies

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:54
Bulgarian state-owned gas company Bulgargas is seeking more than €400 million in damages from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom Export-Import for the sudden suspension of natural gas supplies at the end of April 2022.
Categories: European Union

Two major agri files EU Parliament will have to tackle in the next term

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:51
The end-2023 MEPs failure to approve a comprehensive reform of the rules on pesticides epitomizes the difficulties of the Green Deal in agrifood policy. Two big agrifood policy files are pending for the next Parliament.
Categories: European Union

NATO says Russian troop numbers insufficient for Kharkiv breakthrough

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:47
NATO's top commander said on Thursday (16 May) he did not believe Russia's military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Le mix électrique décarboné de la France est-il un aimant à investissements étrangers ?

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:45
Le président de la République le vante, le ministre délégué à l’Énergie l'encense : le caractère décarboné du mix électrique français serait un atout sans commune mesure pour attirer les investissements étrangers, notamment dans l'industrie. La réalité est plus complexe.
Categories: Union européenne

‘Foreign agent’ bill fundamentally alters relationship with West, Georgia’s president warns

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:45
Georgia's controversial 'foreign agent' law profoundly changes the country's relationship with its Western partners and the EU should take the outcome of the upcoming elections as a basis to reassess its ties with Tbilisi, the country's President Salome Zourabishvili told Euractiv.
Categories: European Union

Moldova to hold EU referendum, presidential election on 20 October

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:34
Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova voted on Thursday (16 May) to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu's policies, alongside a presidential election.
Categories: European Union

Spain’s Sumar, Podemos condemn alleged arms shipment to Israel via Spain

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:34
The left-wing to far-left platform Sumar and its former ally, the far-left Podemos party, have pressured the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to prevent Madrid from sending weapons to Israel on a ship that was due to dock in the south-east Spanish port of Cartagena, Murcia, on Wednesday.
Categories: European Union

Italy’s Schlein-Meloni showdown cancelled over fairness concerns

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:24
The planned televised showdown between Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein and Fratelli d’Italia leader Giorgia Meloni, initially set for 23 May, has been cancelled, as other parties, both in opposition and in coalition, raised objections about fairness and are now seeking to have a debate involving all party leaders.
Categories: European Union

Sweden’s Social Democrats want EU ID verification to fight social media trolls

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:21
Swedish Social Democrats are calling on the European Union to introduce an identity verification requirement across social media to prevent the creation of fake accounts, former prime minister Magdalena Andersson and socialist MEP Heléne Fritzon said on Thursday, following the recent revelations of alleged far-right troll farms.
Categories: European Union

After Fico shooting, Poland’s Tusk receives death threats

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:13
As the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico continues to fight for his life after Wednesday’s assassination attempt, his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk made public one of the death threats he received on social media.
Categories: European Union

Grand Forks AFB Extended Global Hawk Operational Range | Lithuania Received Javelins | US And Japan To Develop Interceptor System

Defense Industry Daily - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:00
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $79 million contract. This contract procures diminishing manufacturing sources parts required for the production and sustainment in of the F-35 aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, and non-US Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is […]
Categories: Defense`s Feeds

South African photographer wins top prize

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 05:09
Lebohang Kganye has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her exhibition Haufi nyana? I've come to take you home
Categories: Africa

Scientists may have solved mystery of Egyptian pyramids' construction

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 04:28
Scientists say the ancient wonders are likely to have been built along a now-dried up branch of the River Nile.
Categories: Africa

Meghan mania and big skirts: Africa's top shots

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 02:14
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent.
Categories: Africa

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